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This article is the last in a six-part series (see my previous blog) presenting various usage models for Confidential Computing, a set of technologies designed to protect data in use. In this article, I explore interesting support technologies under active development in the confidential computing community. Kernel, hypervisor and firmware support Confidential Computing requires support from the host and guest kernel, the hypervisor, and firmware. At the time of writing, that support is uneven between platforms. Hardware vendors tend to develop and submit relatively large patch series, w

The notorious APT15 used common malware tools and a third-generation custom "Graphican" backdoor to continue its information gathering exploits, this time against foreign ministries.

The US Department of Justice adds litigators under its National Security Division to take on sophisticated cyber threats from adversarial nation-states.

Gen Digital, the parent company of the security companies, is the latest victim in a rash of Cl0p attacks on the bug in the MOVEit transfer software, leading to employee data being revealed.

It's time to update what we think we understand about ransomware, including new defensive measures and how fast the attack response should be.

An update is now available for Red Hat Virtualization 4 Tools for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, and Red Hat Virtualization Engine 4.4. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original. Related CVEs: * CVE-2023-20860: A flaw was found in Spring Framework. In this issue, a security bypass is possible due to the behavior of the wildcard pattern. * CVE-2023-20861: A flaw found was found in Spring Framework. This flaw allows a malicious user to u...

From fake job listings that ding your reputation to fake job applicants who hack your network, job scams are a major threat.

If you operate a cybercrime business that relies on disseminating malicious software, you probably also spend a good deal of time trying to disguise or "crypt" your malware so that it appears benign to antivirus and security products. In fact, the process of "crypting" malware is sufficiently complex and time-consuming that most serious cybercrooks will outsource this critical function to a handful of trusted third parties. This story explores the history and identity behind Cryptor[.]biz, a long-running crypting service that is trusted by some of the biggest names in cybercrime.

A threat you've never heard of is using double extortion attacks on mom-and-pop shops around the globe.

The North Korean threat actor known as ScarCruft has been observed using an information-stealing malware with previous undocumented wiretapping features as well as a backdoor developed using Golang that exploits the Ably real-time messaging service. "The threat actor sent their commands through the Golang backdoor that is using the Ably service," the AhnLab Security Emergency response Center (